“Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.”

— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 173.

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